18-04-2025
UAMS, WRMC set to launch new residency programs
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Washington Regional Medical Center are set to launch two new medical residency programs this fall in both neurology and emergency medicine.
According to a release from UAMS, 'The neurology program and the emergency medicine program are the first new residency programs accredited since the state's PEER Joint Budget Committee approved $4.5 million for expansion of graduate medical education at Washington Regional.'
It also states that the funds 'were unanimously approved Feb. 26 [and] will allow the UAMS/Washington Regional Graduate Medical Education Program to expand by an additional 26 medical residency and fellowship slots.'
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Ryan Cork, the Vice Chancellor at UAMS Northwest, says the goal is to keep talented future doctors local.
'Our goal is to train Arkansans to stay in Arkansas and practice in Arkansas and help make a better state, a healthier state of Arkansas,' Cork said.
Cork says previously, there weren't many options for students looking to work in emergency medicine or neurology.
'For those individuals who wish to become a neurologist or wish to become an emergency medicine physician, they would have to leave at least Northwest Arkansas, if not the state in some cases to match with these residency programs,' Cork said.
The programs will begin recruiting their first residents in the fall.
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